Cigarette case



Nov. 19, 1935. v F. SPITALNY 2,021,755

CIGARETTE CASE Filed June 15, 1933 1N VEN TOR.

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A TTORNEY Patented Nov. 19, 1935 UNITED STATES i ATNT OFFICE CIGARETTE CASE Fred Spitalny, Elizabeth, N. J. Application June 15, 1933, Serial No. 675,925

4 Claims. (01. 206-41) The present invention relates to cigarette cases and particularly to a type of case characterized by a telescoping drawer-like cigarette holding element within a fiat and rigid casing.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cigarette case capable of holding a suflicient quantity of cigarettes, that is economical in structure, simple in operation and relatively thin, adapting it to be carried flat in the pocket and especially adapted to be carried in a ladys hand bag where it may rest along one side thereof without impairing the accessibility to other items therewith.

Another object is to provide a cigarette case having a fiat open-ended casing in which is slidably mounted a cigarette carrying drawer-like member.

A further object resides in the provision of particular co-operating slide means between the casing and the drawer.

A still further object is to provide a cigarette holding drawer element into which the cigarettes may be placed side by side by slipping them in endwise into cigarette receiving pockets on the drawer.

A still further object resides in the provisions of a drawer having cigarette receiving pockets formed by two longitudinally disposed corrugated plates, one of which is resiliently mounted so it may be swung aside to permit ready loading of the drawer.

These advantageous features are accomplished by the novel and practical construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter disclosed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, constituting an essential part of the disclosure, and in which:

Fig. l is a side elevatio-nal view of a cigarette case constructed in accordance with this invention showing the drawer partially withdrawn and a portion of the casing in section.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional detail along the line 2--2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan detail of th cigarette pockets.

Fig. 4 is a cross section detail similar to Fig. 2 and showing an alternate of structure.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side view of the drawer shown in Fig. 4.

The casing 5 comprises side walls 6 either joined together at one end and along both lateral edges or integrally made to form a flat hollow casing open ended at l.

Along one lateral edge thereof may be affixed, as by soldering, a guide member 8. In the present instance the guide member is shown as comprising an open-ended tube having a through slot 9 along its inner portion.

The drawer Ill comprises a pull member II which forms a continuation of the casing when 5 the drawer is assembled therein and a, tube or rod l2 adapted to telescopically co-operate with the guide member 8.

Means such as shown at l3 may be used to assist in withdrawing the drawer from the casing 10 and means such as indicated at it may be employed to frictionally or otherwise retain the drawer in the casing.

The cigarette holding member I 5 is formed by two side walls [6 connected at one end to each 15 other and at the other end to the drawer pull I l. The walls of the member l5 are corrugated as shown at I! to provide a plurality of cigarette receiving pockets H3.

The holding member I5 is also provided with 0 a bottom wall l9 which may be slightly spaced from the drawer slide tube [2 and connected thereto as by means of the solder shown at 20.

After cigarettes C are placed in the pockets l8 the tube [2 is entered in the open end of the 25 guide 8 and the drawer Ill slid into the casing 6. The retaining means it will maintain the drawer in assembled relation with the casing until it is desired to extract a cigarette. This is readily accomplished by pulling the drawer pull ll until 30 a cigarette is exposed which may be extracted and the drawer again slid into the casing.

Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate an alternate for cigarette holding member. In this form one wall Ilia is fixed with the slide tube l2 and the other 161) is 35 hinged thereto as at 2| and means such as the I torsional spring 22 is used to yieldingly retain the hinged wall l6b in parallel alignment with the fixed wall Ilia. With such an arrangement the loading of cigarettes in the member I5 is facili- 40 tated.

Although I have described my improvements with considerable detail and with respect to certain particular forms of my invention, I do not desire to be limited to such details since many 45 changes and modifications in the form, arrangements, proportions and sizes thereof, may well be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention in its broadest aspect.

Having thus described my invention, what I 50 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A cigarette case comprising a hollow openended casing, a drawer guide disposed along one lateral edge thereof, a tube adapted to telescopi- 55 cally engage the drawer guide, a drawer pull constituting a closure for the casing, fixed to the tube, and cigarette holding means longitudinally disposed adjacent the tube and afiixed thereto and to the drawer pull.

2. A cigarette case comprising a hollow casing, open at one end and closed at the other, a drawer element having a cigarette holding member, and a casing closure, co-operating slide means on one edge of the casing and on a corresponding edge of the drawer element whereby the cigarette holding member may be slid into and out of the casing.

3. A cigarette case comprising a hollow openended casing, a drawer guide within the casing; and a drawer element adapted to slide within the casing having a part to cooperate with the drawer guide, said drawer element having cigarette holding means, said cigarette holding means comprising opposed corrugated walls forming cigarette receiving pockets, one of said walls being resiliently mounted.

4. A cigarette case comprising a hollow openended casing, a drawer guide disposed along one lateral edge thereof, a tube adapted to telescopically engage the drawer guide, a drawer pull constituting a closure for the casing, fixed to the tube, and cigarette holding means longitudinally disposed adjacent the tube and affixed thereto and to the drawer pull, said cigarette holding means comprising opposed corrugated walls forming cigarette receiving pockets, one of said walls being pivotally and resiliently mounted.

FRED SPITALNY. 

